Know Your Local: LieghAnn Cochran

LieghAnn Cochran loves Russellville almost as much as she loves people.

She's primarily been in the area for most of her life, working for 12 years at her mom's consignment shop.

As a natural people person, Cochran got her master's in College Student Personnel, hoping to work on the Arkansas Tech campus. But when an opportunity presented itself for Cochran to stay at the store, she didn't turn it down.

"To be honest, it was my mom's dreams to have a consignment store, it wasn't my dream," Cochran said. "But then it became my dreams after doing it for so long and realizing that I love what I do."

The people here are her love; she loves talking to the customers, getting in trouble on occasion for talking to them too much.

To stay in Russellville took some convincing on Cochran's part, too. She learned to love it here, realizing that everything she needed was here.

"I didn't realize this until I became an adult myself, because as a teenager, I wanted to leave Russellville," Cochran said. "But once I did graduate college and I saw a little bit of the real world, I realized I don't want to leave my hometown. I love the safety of my hometown."

Now, she's involved with the community and takes steps to advocate for ways to get involved in the community.

"You have to think outside the box," Cochran said. "You want to be able to shop local and help other people out in that sense of the community also. You just want to always make our community better, because it's our home."

-- By Hannah Butler

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